Registering-beam for scales.



Patented Oct. 8; mm.

F. W. TAYLOR.

REGISTERING BEAI FOB SCALES.

(Appliention flhd lay 86, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK W'. TAYLOR, OF ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR TO THE E. & T.FAIRBANKS & CO., OF SAME PLACE.

REGISTERING-BEAM FOR SCALES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,132, dated October8, 1901.

Application filed May 25, 1901- No. 597,640; and the object of theinvention is to provide a construction of poise adapted for use with acontinuous-strip ticket or with an ordinary ticket, the advantage in theuse of a continuous ticket being that the record of an entire daysweighing may be kept on one strip or ticket instead of requiringseparate tickets for each load weighed.

The invention therefore consists in the matters hereinafter described,and referred to in the appended claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in which-=Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly in section, of a portion of aweighing-scale of the type referred to embodying my invention. Fig. 2 isa cross-section of the same. Fig. '0 is a plan view of a portion of acontinuous ticket which I propose to use, and Fig. 4 is a detail View ofa separate ticket.

In the drawings, frepresents the poise sliding on the beam 13, which isof the usual construction employed in this type of scale. The poiseslide or slides are of the usual construction, and the ticket 6 isadapted to be impressed against the face of the type on the beam andpoise-slides in the usual way. The shell of the poise at the rear isprovided with a slot registering with the slot in front, in which theticket is inserted, so that a continuous ticket 6 may be passed throughthe same and each section thereof, 9, impressed in the Serial No.61,970. (No model.)

usual manner. This opening at may be closed by a sliding plate d, havingslots through which pass screws t', a thumb-screw Z) being provided tomanipulate the plate cl up and down. If it is desired to use thecontinuous strip or ticket, the slide (Z is raised, leaving the openingafree for the passage of the ticket, which has cross or division linesat suitable intervals, so that when a cross-line is flush with the faceof the poise the impression will come at the proper place on the ticket.If, however, it is desired to print upon the separate sections ortickets 2', the screw 1) is loosened, the plate 61 lowered across theopening a, and it thus acts as a stop or gage for the end of the ticket.The continuous strip or ticket is shown in Fig. 3 and a separate sectionthereof or ticket (2 in 4. Each section is properly ruled for the date,gross, tare, and net weight in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a printing or registering beam-scale, a beam, at poise slidingthereon, having an opening through the rear portion through which acontinuous strip or ticket may pass, and a movable slide adapted toclose said opening; substantially as described.

2. In a printing or registering beam-scale, a beam, a poise slidingthereon having an opening through the rear portion through which acontinuous strip or ticket may pass, and a sliding plate supported andguided ver tically on the rear shell of the poise; substantially asdescribed.

3. In a printing or registering beam-scale, a beam, a poise slidingthereon, and a stop adjustably supported on the rear shell of the poise,against which the ticket may abut; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK \V. TAYLOR. Vitnesses:

WILLIS H. SARGEN'I, FRANK H. TAYLOR.

